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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

luxury handset posted:

permabans who can't maintain an alternate posting persona are in the same fun tier as people who loudly decamp to an offsite and then quietly resume their regular posting after a short time
See you on the American Egg Council forums, where yolks aren't illegal.

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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

bell jar posted:

taking the time to call out fau for modding, despite him having not been an admin for ages, is incredibly funny
Last post on this website will be somebody whining about Ozma so I'm not surprised

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Nuns with Guns posted:

Another funny thing about Shampy was when FAU finally remembered to permaban him and some other account that claimed to be an "IRL friend" of his showed up to melt down about the injustice of it all, and how we didn't have the full story on him abusing his girlfriend.
I'd bet money that was an actual friend. Abusers can be quite good at manipulating people into believing them - it's one of the ways they keep access to victims.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Grandmother of Five posted:

I mean like, when someone gets poked fun at a bit, and then in an attempt to deflect attention ends up sharing wayyyyyy worse poo poo than what got them made fun of in the first place and just dig themselves into a deeper and deeper hole.
I was reading that Mega64 LP of a Final Fantasy 6 romhack when the romhack creator showed up to say how crazy something is, then closed it with "and this is from a guy who looks at clop."

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Pogo used to get posted in the newspaper comics thread in BSS regularly, but maybe that's stopped.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

I realized after posting that the last time I was really involved with that thread was like 2012

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Bogus Adventure posted:

Or even just put a sticky that says Lowtax is selling the forums to Kim Dotcom
Isn't he in prison?

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Several years ago I had some posters convinced that he was going to sell the site the Cheezburger network.
I also got a rumor going in QCS that Lowtax was selling the forums back before I was a mod. It seems pretty easy to do. Goons are panicky by nature.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Pick posted:

the greatest april fool's prank would have been making me a mod

do NOT do that. jfc what a thankless job.
It's not that bad. I enjoyed being a mod and admin. I think you have to like forums drama though. Even with all the poo poo that I had to deal with I still had a great time, and I don't regret any of it.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

angerbeet posted:

We were all Phoenix Wright characters for a while too, that was kind of fun. I think I was almonds with the Nice! avatars.
I loved the Nice! avatars and I wish they'd stuck around longer.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Spanish Manlove posted:

He might even be able to get wine in a can
Chef Boyardee Pinot Grigioroni

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

God drat, Ettin. You're a drat hero. gently caress that piece of poo poo and gently caress the network of rapists and abusers that make up the world's legal systems.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

What's the best way to get ahold of avshalom?
Fart into a conch shell

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Antivehicular posted:

Wasn't Yobgoblin a turbo-creep? I could swear I'd heard things about them sending a bunch of creepy PMs.
Very much so but IIRC he helped to mod one of Lowtax's twitch streams for a bit.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

I tried journeying to the wilds of France in search of it myself, but I was waylaid by savage natives and had to abort my journey. Now I run the Royal Antequarian Crumpodlean Society, assisting younger adventurers in the logistics and financing of their journeys. No success yet, but we issue a quarterly magazine summarizing our findings.
I heard it was at the bottom of Loch Ness but it floated to the surface and some ducks ate it.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Who What Now posted:

She's been reperma'd by order of Lowtax, so that's as final of an answer you can get.
She only got unperma'd because she promised not to do it again, and then she did it again.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

And again, and again, and again.
Lmao that rocks. I'm glad she got special privileges, and I'm very glad people are angry about it.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Bundy posted:

To follow up my last post yes, "taken out by any means necessary" was a dumbass post. The handwringing here though has been about the "unacceptability" of posting fart porn text. Take a loving look at yourselves.
Oh I was only talking about the threats. I don't care about the other stuff.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

verbal enema posted:

yall suck at talking about SA sagas
Do you remember M R CRACKER?

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

verbal enema posted:

hell naw but fill me in fam
He was just a funny gimmick poster who turned out to be I think a webcomic guy or a blogger trying out a character. He loved Frosties and the verb "put."

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Pick posted:

A loud baby genetically engineered from Andrea Dworkin and bell hooks is exposed in a bathroom to a video game about giving up PIV sex (as indicated the the posture of one's legs). The title is "emotional labor: a mansplaining story" by Gaslight Games. They donated to an anti-abortion candidate in 1991.
I think this is part of the Voight-Kampff test

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

What the gently caress, that's what people have been so mad about? Jesus christ, this loving website.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

That's not it. The event that got MageMage their reputation happened years before 2018.
Oh well that's something at least

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

pentyne posted:

We cannot fail, we can only be failed.
I'm simply shocked to find out there are offsite nutjobs manipulating Lowtax. Shocked.

I was never interested in any of this poo poo even a little bit and I have no idea if this made me a better or worse admin. Oh well! That's Something Awful dot Com backslash Forums backslash Index for you!

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Inceltown posted:

Aren't you in what could be easily argued as the best position to understand how stupid goons are?
Every time I look in the mirror!

Also I'm still laughing pretty hard at the Discord Conspiracy.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Ugly In The Morning posted:

2013-2015 lines up with the whole nu-GBS thing that was full of hateful angry weirdos.
The minute the rules got lifted in GBS at the end of 2013 a wave of transphobes came in to flood the forum. A lot of people really, really hate anyone trans. Plenty of other forums here had or have issues with transphobia, but it's never been as bad as that.

Which doesn't mean there's not still a lot of work to do, but nu-GBS set the forums back years.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Snow Cone Capone posted:



The 3 purple/gold heart logos are goon guilds in Final Fantasy 14. It's pretty nice to have a huge amount of resources available for newbies, I don't think there's ever been any large-scale griefing on the part of goons in that game.

e: to clarify I'm not even sure what the points system on that list means, I just know that the guilds ("Free Companies") grant great bonuses, everyone is super-friendly and helpful for running actual content, and people are happy to craft high-end gear for peanuts. It's a pretty great community
I played with DGKK for a while years ago (right at Stormblood's release) and they were a great group. I find it too difficult to keep up with any sort of guilds or multiplayer stuff in games now, but I would definitely recommend the goon FCs to anyone who wants some help getting into the game, assuming there hasn't been any sort of huge drama since then I'm not aware of.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Oh no doubt, my man.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Crocoswine posted:

I feel like the Dobson mockthread is the ultimate example of what happens when content completely dries up. People were so desperate for posts they were going through multi-year old dA journals trying to find things to ding him for, and it ultimately ended with someone posting a video of someone at a con lamely walking up to him and pouring a bottle of water all over him like it was the greatest own in the world.
Something similar happened with the old grognards.txt thread in Trad Games, even though it wasn't focused on one person. The tabletop RPG community online just isn't that big, and after a while it was all the same people being talked about all the time.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Paladinus posted:

A weird hill to die on.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

There were five or six goons I knew in my hometown. Weird place.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Tunicate posted:

Some birds are funny when they talk.
Can you think of anything else that talks? Other than a person?

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

WeedlordGoku69 posted:

posting full scans of printed indie comics is generally considered bad form even by people who are ok with pirating mainstream comics, and SA has historically been hardcore anti-piracy, so i'm not entirely sure this is a hill you wanna die on
SA is anti-SA-getting-sued, it's not some sort of moral stance.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Dabir posted:

this is the last big place on the internet you can find real moderation done by real people, not fuckassed algorithms or anonymous white supremacists or self appointed supercops. gently caress you, this place isn't on life support. the internet died a long time ago and this place is the life support.
There's a reason so many of us, posters and current mods and former ones and everyone else, like this place. It's weird as hell but there's not many places online like it. But there isn't much you can do when so much of the site's identity and survival depend on one person. I'll miss SA too if it goes away, and I'm happy I put the time in to help keep it going.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

wild drama llama posted:

it's ok, the next step in the 2020 apocalypse is all of us developing telepathy and becoming a globe-spanning hivemind of unfathomable stupidity
I'd rather live in the world that exists after we expose all the domestic abusers and rapists anyway.

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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Also I never donated a dollar since I didn't want to give money to a site where I was already volunteering my time, and I'm really happy I stuck by that decision. :patriot:

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